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My expectations in this year's ICAAP, I would like to have more information
Alot will change. I hope what they are saying about Zero *** infection, AIDS-related death and zero stigma and discrimination,
I hope we can achieve this.
I can learn alot of things and to hopefully find stake holders that can help and funders as well.
This is a good chance for me, for us to learn from other countries.
And then they would come up with programs and policies that are youth-MSM and youth-transgender specific.
Hoping to learn some skills and then integrate into my own practice in Singapore.
Because my country, Laos, so I wanna know, I wanna have more and gain more experience
and also information that can be use.
and share it with my community. To help my community, and...
Have a voice in the society. So more learnings and more happiness and more networks to come.
Zero new *** infections, the main principle of the first zero is
to stop and reverse the rise in number of new *** infections in Asia and the Pacific.
The increasing number of people who are being infected with *** are suffering from it without even noticing that suffering from it without even noticing that
they are being infected with ***.
We can focus on the most vulnerable group such as young people to prevent them from *** infection.
So maybe look at how they can look at the needs of LGBTQI youths and also how they can integrate it in the greater
curriculum of the comprehensive sexuality education.
The thing that we're doing in our city or in the organization that I've been part of is that we really involve the community. Because community involvement
is really very important in achieving these three goals.
There is a need to have intervention. That it will not spread among our community.
What we're trying to promote is how actually *** use can be pleasurable. How? One, you don't have to think about getting pregnant,
you don't have to think about STI. Can you imagine how that's going to affects performance if you don't have to worry about those things?
The biggest sex organ is the mind.
As a young person, we are facing so many problems day by day.
In Australia and around the Asia-Pacific region, there's still alot of barriers in place for us looking for our health and safety at work as sex workers
and preventing *** transmission. This includes the criminalisation of sex work and condoms being used as evidence to criminalise sex workers.
The knowledge of people regarding *** is not yet wide.
Usually, service providers really don't know about transgenders. People in the private clinics, hospitals, they don't really know about what transgenders are
and what are the transgender issues. Annoyingly, just because they don't know these issues, we are more vulnerable to ***.
There are actually laws, policies, and practices that impede access and availability of ARTs and at the same time, that hampers prevention programs and policies
for key affected population including young people in key populations and PLHIV.
We also face all of the problems such as mandatory testing. This is especially an issue when *** is criminalised and sex workers living with *** are criminalised.
I hope there is no more discrimination and no more stigma towards our community.
Eventhough there is existing anti-discimination ordinance in our city, we will still be proactive in implementing it.
Consider other social support, not just providing the best health services, but also other issues like social support, psychological, economic, education and employment as well.
Providing spaces for key populations, particularly, young key populations to lead the response, and not just be in the center or in the front of the response but actually leading them.
I hope that in the future, at least in the near future, that an organisation of positive transgender Filipinos will be form that will focus on their needs, issues and concerns.
And I personally believe that we used to work with this hand-in-hand. It's not just an issue of someone but it is also an issue of everybody.
This year's ICAAP calls on young people to be agents of change. And with the theme of Asia-Pacific reaching "Triple Zero" through innovation,
we look to you, the young people to assume a leadership role. You have received all support and encouragement from the ICAAP 11 local organising committee
to promote a new dynamic by correcting or identifying young people as the way of the future.
These few days, I'm just really impressed in what's going on in ICAAP. I mean...
It's so amazing! Because...
I met new people from different countries with different *** orientations and different gender identities.
Working in different areas, belonging to different races.
This is actually the place where there's no stigma and discrimination.
One thing I realised in ICAAP 11 is the important role of the youth in the fight against *** and AIDS,
Instead of contributing to the problem, we make the solution. Youth is the investment.
I learned alot from the other countries and I think those informations will be helpful to my country, to my group to my community in Vietnam.
I can really see youths being involve in all sectors like academics, community, whatever.
So I'm really impressed with how ICAAP has really involved the youths in their conferences. Because nowadays, the youths, their voices, they need to be herd.
And also I have listened to some experience. For example, the use of social media to do the promotion.
That's why I think I like the presentation of the Youth Voices Count because they promote alot of advocacies for the youth.
It's a great experience. And I believe that whatever I've learned, it has strengthen my skills and I can take it home and make a change.
And it was my honor to attend this ICAAP. I got the chance to share my situation in Sri Lanka regarding young transgenders through YVC.
I believe that every people especially young people like me can learn from ICAAP and I hope that we can use those things, those knowledge
To come together and share the experiences and hopefully, what they learned from here can be replicated in their own country.
I have herd the voices of young people living with *** and the communities. I will work very hard for us to get to zero.
Zero infections, zero related deaths and zero stigma and discrimination. Youth is the answer! We are the investment!